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| Leipzig Glottolog | |
|---|---|
| Name | Leipzig Glottolog |
| Type | bibliographic database |
| Language | English |
| Country | Germany |
| Founded | 2010s |
| Publisher | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Leipzig Glottolog
Leipzig Glottolog is a bibliographic and classification resource for the world's languages maintained by scholars at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and associated institutions. It aims to provide comprehensive language inventories, genealogical classifications, and bibliographic references for linguistic research communities centered in Leipzig, Berlin, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Zurich, and other research hubs. The project is widely used by researchers connected to the University of Leipzig, Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Zurich, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Leipzig Glottolog functions as a curated catalog linking language names to standardized identifiers and scholarly literature, similar in scope to projects at the Max Planck Institute, the SIL International catalogues, the Ethnologue project, the Rosetta Project, and the World Atlas of Language Structures. It interfaces with institutionally linked projects at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig University Library, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Institution. Users include researchers from Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University.
The initiative originated in collaborations among researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and the University of Leipzig, drawing on earlier cataloguing traditions exemplified by the work of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and the Linguistic Society of America. Development phases involved contributions from scholars at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Paris, the University of Vienna, the University of Zurich, and the University of Copenhagen. Funding and institutional support were provided through associations with the German Research Foundation, the European Research Council, the British Academy, the National Science Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The project's methodology combines bibliographic verification, genealogical reasoning, and typological assessment, drawing on standards used by the International Phonetic Association, the International Congress of Linguists, the Association for Linguistic Typology, and the Linguistic Society of America. Classification decisions consider published work from scholars at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Australian National University, the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Editorial guidelines reflect citation practices used by the Chicago Manual of Style, the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and De Gruyter. Peer review and editorial arbitration involve experts with affiliations to Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University.
The resource lists individual languages, dialects, and families with bibliographic entries drawn from monographs, grammars, dictionaries, and articles published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Brill, De Gruyter, Routledge, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, and the University of Chicago Press. Coverage spans language families discussed in works from the Australian National University, Leiden University, the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and includes materials in collections at the British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bodleian Library, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and the Staatsbibliothek Leipzig. Taxonomic entries parallel resources such as Ethnologue, the World Atlas of Language Structures, the Catalog of Endangered Languages, and the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
The database has been cited and critiqued in publications associated with Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of California system, the Australian National University, and the Max Planck Institute. It is used in comparative projects alongside datasets from the World Bank, the European Commission, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization for studies bridging linguistics with anthropology, history, and human geography. Reviews and methodological discussions have appeared in journals published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Brill, and De Gruyter, and have involved scholars from the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Linguistic Society of America, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the International Phonetic Association.
Leipzig Glottolog is distributed under open licensing compatible with academic reuse and data aggregation, aligning with policies from the Max Planck Society, the German Research Foundation, the European Research Council, the Creative Commons initiative, and institutional repositories at the University of Leipzig, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge. The dataset is integrated into research infrastructures used by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Max Planck Digital Library, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and international aggregators such as the Open Language Archives Community, the SIL International archives, the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network, and the British Library Sounds collection.
Category:Linguistics Category:Bibliographic databases Category:Max Planck Society